CIVILIAN POWER REACTOR PROGRAM. PART III. STATUS REPORT ON LARGE (100 AND 300 MWe) HEAVY WATER-MODERATED POWER REACTORS--AS OF 1960
An evaluation of 300- and 100-Mwe power plants was conducted using ground rules prescribed by the USAEC for this study. Costs corresponding to two average discharged fuel burnups are: 8.6 mills/kwh (8500 Mwd/ metric ton) and 8.8 mills/kwh (7500 Mwd/metric ton) for the 300-Mw plant. Costs for the 100 Mw plant are 14.7 mills/kwh for an average discharged fuel burnup of 6010 Mwd/metric ton. Estimates of future potential indicate that the 300 Mw/sub 3/ (8500 Mwd/metric ton) plant could produce power for 7.3 mills/kwh in a second generation, full scale plant of the same type. A further reduction to 6.4 mills/kwh should be possible as the result of the recommended ten-year development program. The current development program is adequate for providing the data needed to design and construct a prototype reactor. However, there is no natural U-fueled prototype and no prototype of the chosen reference design scheduled in the U.S. Current technology is sufficiently developed to initiate the design and construction of a pressure tube, boiling D/sub 2/Ocooled, natural UO/sub 2/- fueled reactor prototype plant in the immediate future. This plant would demonstrate the main features of a full scale plant and, in addition. would provide design data which could only be obtained by operation of a natural U- fueled reactor. (auth)
- Research Organization:
- Nuclear Development Corp. of America, White Plains, N.Y.
- NSA Number:
- NSA-16-031264
- OSTI ID:
- 4789688
- Report Number(s):
- NDA-2153-3
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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